Bengal touched a new high on Thursday morning with a three-hour gunbattle within a 15-km radius at the trijunction of three today left Mamata Banerjee a winner twice over - the Left slide worsened and her ally Congress stumbled in its north Bengal stronghold.

Delhi, Nov. 26: Legislators of the Trinamul Congress and the CPM used the Lok Sabha to accuse each other of fostering violence in Bengal touched a new high on Thursday morning with a three-hour gunbattle within a 15-km radius at the trijunction of three